Ballard

At some point in the future I’ll be filming a video for a forthcoming EP. I’ve enlisted my good friend Ian Brown to do all the hard work for me – filming, directing, editing etc – while I do the easy bit and just appear in it. He kindly agreed to do it for nothing as long as I did something for him and the above video is my end of the bargain.

Pubs are shutting like wildfire at the moment – my local was threatened with closure a couple of years ago and it’s future is still by no means certain – and Ian, being a somewhat enthusiastic visitor of pubs, decided to film a little piece about it. Asking me to record a version of the Cheers theme seemed like a logical thing to do, given the melancholy nature of the lyrics and I was more than happy to oblige.

I hope you like it as I certainly enjoyed recording it. I asked him if he wanted it like Johnny Cash and he said yes. I asked how sad it should be and he replied, “Like the day June Carter died.”